Rethinking Environmental History

This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg J. R. McNeill and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social historical and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes with a long-term historical perspective. Readers are challenged to integrate studies of the Earth-system with studies of the world-system and to reconceptualize the relations between human beings and their environment as well as the challenges of global sustainability.